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Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Albuquerque, NM

February 20, 202417 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Feb 20, 2024, 1:27 PM MST for 17 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Feb 21, 2024, 11:00 AM MST. It was in force for 8 hr. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Feb 20, 2024, 1:27 PM MST (20:27 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 21, 2024, 11:00 AM MST
Expired: Feb 21, 2024, 7:00 PM MST
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM, Valencia County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 21, 12:55 PM MST	HIGH SUST WINDS 40	2 S Fort Stanton, NM	AWOS station KSRR Sierra Blanca Rgnl Arpt.
Feb 21, 1:55 PM MST	HIGH SUST WINDS 43	2 S Fort Stanton, NM	AWOS station KSRR Sierra Blanca Rgnl Arpt.
Feb 21, 2:55 PM MST	NON-TSTM WND GST 59	11 Se Vaughn, NM	Mesonet station SVAN5 Se Vaughn.
Feb 21, 3:35 PM MST	NON-TSTM WND GST 59	2 S Fort Stanton, NM	AWOS station KSRR Sierra Blanca Rgnl Arpt.
Feb 21, 4:00 PM MST	NON-TSTM WND GST 64	7 Sw Glenrio, NM	Mesonet station 107 Endee 2 SW.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Albuquerque, NM wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at Feb 20, 10:19 AM MST, 3 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 20, 10:19 AM MST, 3 hours 8 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 20, 12:29 PM MST	Wind Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Colfax, Guadalupe, Lincoln and 10 more	31 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in New Mexico, 2024 Every red flag warning in 2024

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.